Amusement Parks

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

:D We were in SoulSeek and 3rd gen and tc were talking about Alton Towers (http://www.alton-towers.co.uk/).

And I said it seemed kinda like Kings Island (http://www.pki.com/).Which is my Favorite.Always has been.Only an Hour or so away from Louisville.

It is Home to "The Beast".Which when Built back in 1979 was the World's Longest Wooden Roller Coaster and still is over 20 Years later.7,400 feet of track at speeds of over 60 mph.

Not very Fast I know.But the Wood makes it ohhh so nice.My Favorite Ride.....

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/668/tn_beast3.jpg

http://www.americanmidway.com/pictures/KingsIsland/beast1.jpg

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3181/tn_beast1.jpg

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5749/beast2.jpg







Whats your Favorites?Or some that are close by?


FC B)

[Yogi]

I hate amusementparcs!!!

Standing in line for ages to get sick in a few minutes................ :angry:

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

Originally posted by SensualBarfing@13 June 2004 - 06:42
I hate amusementparcs!!!

Standing in line for ages to get sick in a few minutes................ :angry:
:P Pussy. :P

:lol:

[misterSTFU]

bigges one ive been on is the pepsi max big one. ownage :D


http://www.bannister.org/coasters/autoimgs/bpb_pmbo.jpg

[Yogi]

Originally posted by FuNkY CaPrIcOrN+13 June 2004 - 13:45--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FuNkY CaPrIcOrN @ 13 June 2004 - 13:45)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SensualBarfing@13 June 2004 - 06:42
I hate amusementparcs&#33;&#33;&#33;

Standing in line for ages to get sick in a few minutes................ :angry:
:P Pussy. :P

:lol: [/b][/quote]
I know.........

I&#39;ve been to about all the parcs in holland, belgium and west-germany

professionally.......... :lol:

When i was working with handicapped people. On more than one occasion i abused

their handicap to skip waiting in line&#33;&#33;&#33; :lol: :lol:

Funny, the patients were mostly less frightened than i was............ :helpsmile:



Yogi

[misterSTFU]

i&#39;m scared shitless of em. i just tell myself "if they were likely to make me die they wouldnt be allowed open" :rolleyes:

[Afronaut]

My first experience of Amusement Parks is Linnanmäki (http://www.bellingham.fi/huvipuis/uklintsi.htm) which
is located in Finlands capitol Helsinki.

I think i was about 10:ish and we got this class trip on the school just for that,
was 4 hours drive on a buss, one way.

Anyhoo, they got the roller coaster made of wood too, actually really old,
done in 1951 (found the info on that site, English btw)
That thing was scary, it squels like a pig while on it, lol,
its not the Speed or the Length, but the feeling that if you gonna get out o it alive
is very much there....

Been on that roller coaster few times afterwards also, and it is just giving scearier rides everytime.

:ph34r:

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I like the <a href='http://www.gronalund.com/attraktioner/]Gröna Lund (http://www.bellingham.fi/huvipuis/lintsi/big_vuorid.jpg' target='image'>[img) too,
thats in Stockholm. (that link is in Swedish, there is English version, but thats PDF file)

And of course, Särkänniemi (http://www.sarkanniemi.fi/english/seethepark/index.php) wich can be found in Tampere, Finland. (link English)

Nowadays im a bit too old to go to those machines im afraid,
i&#39;d probably hurl all over...

:cool2:

[Yogi]

Most popular in Holland:


Efteling(in english) (http://www.efteling.nl/home.aspx?LanguageId=2)

[100%]

I am not Amused

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

Originally posted by SensualBarfing@13 June 2004 - 07:20
Most popular in Holland:


Efteling(in english) (http://www.efteling.nl/home.aspx?LanguageId=2)
:) That Place looks cool. :)

[Yogi]

6 person family themeparc holiday..........

Disneyland® Resort
5 Day Bonus Park Hopper - Ages 10 & Older &#036;1,104.00
SeaWorld San Diego
Southern CA Value Pass - Ages 3 to 9 years &#036;408.00
Universal Studios Hollywood
Front Of The Line - All Ages - Peak Season &#036;594.00

Total &#036;2104,00

Food and beverages not included.............


Soon you will only meet the family Gates, Bush and several royal family&#39;s in those

parcs, as they will be the only ones who can afford it........



Yogi

[misterSTFU]

they are way too expensive. it cost us £7 each to get on the pepsi max. they must make £100 every 3 minutes onn that thing <_<

[Skweeky]

Six Flags Belgium. Too expensive these days but this one was always my favourite:

The Vampire

http://www.sixflagseurope.com/sixflagsbelgium/attractions/thrills/ow/images/visu_vampire.jpg

[Yogi]

Originally posted by FuNkY CaPrIcOrN+13 June 2004 - 14:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FuNkY CaPrIcOrN @ 13 June 2004 - 14:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-SensualBarfing@13 June 2004 - 07:20
Most popular in Holland:


Efteling(in english) (http://www.efteling.nl/home.aspx?LanguageId=2)
:) That Place looks cool. :) [/b][/quote]
It is.

There is something for all ages.

I liked the fairy realm the best&#33;&#33;&#33; :lol: :lol: (my innerchild..... :rolleyes: )

The FataMorgana Boatride:

http://www.efteling.nl/uploads/internet%202004/Park/Extra%20Large/FataHandelsmeester.jpg


1001 nights……your boat rocks gently. The wizard shows the way. Look out&#33; A rock. Just in time, luckily. A new world opens out before you……with strange music. Oriental. A belly dancer sways her hips. A crocodile&#33; Those teeth…escaped. Tigers. An enormous giant. No&#33; Do we have to go under that? Whew…just as well. Now it&#39;s getting dark. Sinister. Beggars. Dubious figures. The journey slowly comes to an end. Fata Morgana. Definitely not a mirage.



Just checked their website for the first time: what a beauty&#33;&#33;&#33;

[Skweeky]

Hehehehe, oh yeah, the Fata Morgana. Preferable stoned. Never had so much fun in my life :lol:

[Yogi]

Originally posted by Skweeky@13 June 2004 - 14:59
Hehehehe, oh yeah, the Fata Morgana. Preferable stoned. Never had so much fun in my life :lol:
totally.............must say you know your classics&#33;&#33;&#33; :lol:

Did that while on holiday with my work.............. :o
(and secretly doing naughty stuff with a collegue........ :P )

[UcanRock2]

Elitch Gardens - Denver, CO

Click on the Names below for more details.

Half Pipe (http://www.sixflags.com/parks/elitchgardens/Rides/halfpipe.html)...Americas first new cool snowboarding ride. Do a virtual ride...

Mind Eraser (http://www.sixflags.com/parks/elitchgardens/Rides/minderaser.html)...This is cool.

[misterSTFU]

mind eraser is the geppest ride name i ever heeard

[UcanRock2]

Originally posted by misterSTFU@13 June 2004 - 14:43
mind eraser is the geppest ride name i ever heeard
Click on it

[Voetsek]

Originally posted by UcanRock2+13 June 2004 - 15:02--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (UcanRock2 @ 13 June 2004 - 15:02)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-misterSTFU@13 June 2004 - 14:43
mind eraser is the geppest ride name i ever heeard
Click on it [/b][/quote]
er forgot what was that then

[Nightwolf]

Of course my favorite park is Disney World, but that&#39;s a two and a half hour flight from here. There are two parks near me, each about an hour drive. My favorite is Hersheypark...

http://www.hersheypa.com/attractions/hersheypark/index.html

[hi_what_is_up!]

You all forgot about the best park in the world...CEDAR POINT&#33; It has the best coaster in the world...Top Thrill Dragster. 0-120 in 4 seconds 420 feet high at 90degrees with a 90degree drop at 120 mph.

[Wallace_Askew]

Originally posted by hi_what_is_up&#33;@13 June 2004 - 22:10
You all forgot about the best park in the world...CEDAR POINT&#33; It has the best coaster in the world...Top Thrill Dragster. 0-120 in 4 seconds 420 feet high at 90degrees with a 90degree drop at 120 mph.
Damn...You beat me to it...I love Cedar Point

[Busyman]

I&#39;ve near me....

Six Flags America (in Maryland)- about 15 minutes away (it was first Wild World then Adventure World)

Kings Dominion (in Virginia)- about 1 hour away.

Busch Gardens (in Virginia)- about 3 hours away

Six Flags Great Adventure (in New Jersey)- about 3 hours away

Hershey Park (in Pennsylvania)- about 3 hours away

It&#39;s funny that I don&#39;t go to Six Flags America that much.

[Mathea]

my fave ride tho is still the cyclone at coney island

[Busyman]

Originally posted by Mathea@14 June 2004 - 01:01
my fave ride tho is still the cyclone at coney island
I rode that ages ago.

[Mathea]

i think its been declared a historic landmark

[Infested Cats]

I win (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_962823.html).

[Afronaut]

Originally posted by Infested Cats@14 June 2004 - 06:12
I win (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_962823.html).
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Can you point out where&#39;s you in those pics?


Crazy ppl....


:lol:

[Voetsek]

Nah i dont like them nasty thing

[Nightwolf]

Originally posted by Infested Cats@14 June 2004 - 00:12
I win (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_962823.html).
I like the protective seat covering. :D

[vidcc]

this is the biggest amusement park in Wales :lol:


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[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

Originally posted by vidcc@14 June 2004 - 19:26
this is the biggest amusement park in Wales :lol:


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:lol:

[hi_what_is_up!]

I was just at cedar point in may and I rode Top Thrill Dragster 2 times in the front and 1 time in the middle and after you ride it in front it blows anywhere else.

[Busyman]

I don&#39;t ride a roller coaster unless it has a loop in it.

I&#39;m afraid otherwise.

[vidcc]

you can recreate the rollercoaster ride or bucking bronco effect at home.

Make love to your wife/girlfriend and call out a different womans name......see how long you can stay on :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: never tried it myself but i am a coward :lol: :lol: :lol:

ok old joke but still funny

[kAb]

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Medusa

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[Jay]

i live about 10 mins away from six flags in maryland.

get a seoson pass every summer. i dont even go there to ride anymore. its just a spot to hang out now.

[dumdum]

a friend and his wife are on a cross-country honeymoon this summer. check out their site at www.rollercoasterdreaming.com (http://www.rollercoasterdreaming.com) B)

[ck-uk]

Originally posted by vidcc@15 June 2004 - 00:26
this is the biggest amusement park in Wales :lol:


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it cant be that big&#33;&#33;&#33; ,i live in wales & i&#39;ve never heard of the place... ;) then again i live in newport city&#33;&#33;...Alton towers is great&#33; i when there 15 ish is yrs ago...

[vidcc]

Originally posted by ck&#045;uk@15 June 2004 - 03:21
it cant be that big&#33;&#33;&#33; ,i live in wales & i&#39;ve never heard of the place... ;) then again i live in newport city&#33;&#33;...Alton towers is great&#33; i when there 15 ish is yrs ago...
think about it :lol: :lol:

[sArA]

I am a rollercoaster addict.....My son (8) also likes em but is a bit short on the height restrictions....my daughter (11) hates em.....but she holds my bag whilst I go on em&#33; :lol:

[Rat Faced]

I prefer the Waltzer

cant get enough of them



The Hoppings starts on friday :D

[Wallace_Askew]

Originally posted by sara5564@15 June 2004 - 10:33
I am a rollercoaster addict.....My son (8) also likes em but is a bit short on the height restrictions....my daughter (11) hates em.....but she holds my bag whilst I go on em&#33;&nbsp; :lol:
You would love Cedar Point (http://www.cedarpoint.com/) then ;)

[CrumbCat]

Top Gun
Paramount&#39;s Great America, Santa Clara, CA

RIDE DETAILS
Track Type Year Designer/Manufacturer
Steel Inverted Multielement 1993 Bolliger and Mabillard

RIDE STATISTICS
Height: 102 feet Drops: 91 feet

Top speed: 50 mph Inversions: 3

Length: 2,260 feet Ride time: 2 minutes, 20 seconds

Number of trains: 2 Trains designed by: Bolliger and Mabillard

Immediately after Bolliger and Mabillard came out with the first inverted coaster in 1992 with Six Flags Great America&#39;s Batman: the Ride near Chicago, a theme park halfway across the country and formerly a sister park to the Midwestern Great America, Paramount&#39;s Great America, was in contact with the two Swiss designers to bring the inverted coaster to the Northern California park as the world&#39;s second inverted model. The PGA inverter would feature its own custom-designed layout, and plans soon came together for a sleek three-inversion, 2,260-foot steel coaster containing one of every inversion that Batman looped through, and a few elements of its own. The Californian Great America park had just recently come under ownership of movie giant Paramount, and it was decided that the new inverted coaster would be the first to sport its own Paramount movie theme. Top Gun was cleared for takeoff and blasted off on March 19th, 1993, just over ten months after Batman&#39;s debut, as the second inverted coaster ever and first to take flight on the West Coast of the US. After its debut, the coaster became the park&#39;s largest draw, guest favorite, and signature attraction for years to come.
Fighter-pilot wannabes walk under the ride logo and enter the line, then make their way up to the station before strapping into one of two 28-passenger trains and getting ready for takeoff. The floor drops, and the train starts up, up, and away. A hundred and two feet over top of Paramount&#39;s Great America, the track makes a dip, the catwalk is left behind, Top Gun banks to the left, and screaming passengers soar back to the ground. Ninety-one feet and 180 degrees later, the train completes the dive to level out eleven feet above the ground only to begin pulling up sharply into the first third of the coaster&#39;s inversion trio: what other than a traditional vertical loop. Once the train has completed the 360-degree vertical knot, the speeding black track overhead curves upwards again, back up towards the sky and curving to the right in a fan curve winding and banking around 315 degrees while climbing, and then diving back down right into Top Gun&#39;s next inversion. For the zero-g roll, passengers are swept up above the entrance area and spun in a complete roll with a few negative g&#39;s thrown in before completing the inversion. The track dips with a curve to the right to set riders down a few feet above the surface of a pond, then speeds them through a quick flat spin to the right flipping the train up into the air like a pancake. The coaster banks leftwards and Top Gun glides up around a tight, high-g carousel curve and then slamming on the brakes. With one more turn to the right, riders find themselves right back where they started and the two-minute, twenty-second ride over.

Since the PGA Top Gun debut, similar inverted rides have opened at other parks in the Paramount family, including an East Coast Bolliger and Mabillard sister coaster, Top Gun: the Jet Coaster located at Paramount&#39;s Carowinds. To experience flight taken to the extreme, buckle yourself up and head on over to a Paramount Park near you&#33;

Completing the loop
http://www.coaster-net.com/pg/topgunpga4_darkcoaster.jpg

Zero-G Roll
http://www.coaster-net.com/pg/topgunpga5_darkcoaster.jpg

Through the Flat Spin
http://www.coaster-net.com/pg/topgunpga6_darkcoaster.jpg

It is number 14 on this map
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Dipping your feet in the water (almost)
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I haven&#39;t been on many, but this one is my favorite so far.

CrumbCat
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[CrumbCat]

kAb-

That Medusa looks INCREDIBLE &#33; &#33; &#33;

I want to ride that one.

Whoa....

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[internet.news]

I live very close to Alton Towers and used to get free tickets from a mate when I was younger (if you live in Alton they give you free tickets adn my mate did) :01:

[Canti]

I havent been in 2 years, but if you live in Ontario Canada, this is where you go for big rides.

Paramount Canada&#39;s Wonderland (http://www.canadas-wonderland.com/attractions_rides.jsp)